How were the Palestinians induced to give up their land?

Answer 1

The Palestinians didn't lose their country. Actually, not all of them. Most of the Palestinians still live in what was called the British Mandate of Palestine. Most of them in the West Bank and the Gaza strip and in Israel still remains a large Arab community. The Arabs in Israel are called Israeli Arabs and make up about 20 % of the Israeli population and got equal rights. They are the only Arabs in the Middle East who are allowed to vote! The first homeland for the Arab/Palestinians was Transjordan, which was cut off from the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922. The remaining part would be available for a Jewish National Home. When the UN in 1947 wanted to share the rest of Palestine 50/50 into a Jewish State and another Arab State the Arabs rejected the partition and the Jews accepted it. The Arab/Palestinian spiritual leader called: 'Kill the Jews, my Muslim brothers!' 'Drive them into the sea'. After the British withdraw from Palestine, David Ben Gurion declared the Independence and rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948. Israel was the first independent Jewish State in the Jewish home region after 19 centuries of foreign rule and diaspora. Short after the Israeli Independence Declaration all the Arab countries attacked Israel. In the Israeli-Arab war (in Israel called the War of Independence) some more then 500 thousands of Arabs/Palestinians who lived between 1946-1948 in Palestine fled away. Most of them fled to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which was part of historical British Palestine. These people actually didn't leave what they call their Palestine! Those territories remained to become a Palestinian State. However Transjordan and Egypt who occupied it didn't give it to the Palestinians! There only goal was to destroy Israel, they didn't care about the 'Palestinians'. However a smaller group fled to Southern Lebanon and Syria. The Arabs locked them up into refugee camps so the people would grow and grow because of the poverty and the lack of hygienical care (condoms!). They used and use them as a demographic weapon against Israel. At the same time from 1948 to the 70s more then 1 million Jews fled from the Arab world to Israel from Persia, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Tunesia etc. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries) These people would have had no future in islamitic countries where Jews never have had equal rights. All the governments of the State of Israel from the Independence till now have announced as long as the Arabs don't recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist the Arabs should resolve their 'Palestinian' issue on their own ground (there are more then 15 MILLION square kilometers left, comparing to Israel which is only 22 thousand square kilometers).

The UN thought most of the fled Arab Palestinians would also be happy to live in the West Bank under Jordanian Rule and the Gaza Strip and Egyptian Rule , the rule of their Arab brothers. This was true until in the 60s the PLO came to exist, to destroy Israel. Short there after in 1967 (the 6 Day War) Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. They never drove the Palestinians living there away. There were refugees in 1967, but all of them returned. In the 90s the territories inhabited by Palestinians on the West Bank (most of the West Bank) got their own administration in the Palestinian National Authority. This is called the Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement. In 2005 Israel withdraw from the Gazastrip. The permanent status of these territories has to be achieved by negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel which can lead to the creation of the first independent Palestinian State (if you don't count Jordan which is actually also a Palestinian State!) in the whole history next to the State of Israel. Obstacles are the Israeli settlements and the Arabs who don't want to recognize the right of existence of the State of Israel.

You can say most of the Palestinians didn't lose there country. In Israel the remaining Palestinian Arabs have got equal rights as Jews, aswell as in the Palestinian territories they administrate themself, aswell as in Jordan most of the Palestinian refugees nowadays are Jordanian citizens. The West of Jordan is also included in historical Palestine at the time of the Arab Empire when most of the nowadays called Palestinian Arabs immigrated to Palestine from the Arab Peninsula. According to that theory, all the Palestinians still live in historical Palestine.

*The only way to peace is when both parties understand each others stories and rights to live in the conflict territory!

Answer 2

They weren't induced to leave their land and the majority of Palestinian homesteads were on the Arab-side of the 1947 Partition. As for those on the Jewish side, the State of Israel was planning to accept them. In the chaos of the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949, many Palestinian Arabs left their homes under threat of violence or the pleading of their religious leaders who believed Israel would be crushed and at that point, they could return to their homes in peace.

As a technical note, the vast majority of territory in the British Mandate of Palestine was actually owned by Turkish nobility or the British government as absentee landlords. The amount of lands actually in Palestinian hands was minimal.